Star Trek: 10 Characters Who Got Away With Murder

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[madnss]

Duras was not a murder, it was Klingon law

[lancedoran]

How is M'Benga not on this list for the whole Dak'Rah episode? I mean that was as seriously dark as Pale Moonlight, sandwiched between a cartoon crossover and a space musical.

[davidkendrick]

Worf killing Duras was ruled by the Klingons to be a justified act of revenge, and therefore not murder. Picard, since Worf killed Duras on a Klingon ship, told Worf he would like to have prosecuted Worf for murder, but could not since the Klingons ruled it wasn't murder and the killing occurred in Klingon territory. Had Worf not avenged himself upon Duras, they would have had to arrest Duras for Kheylarr's murder, committed by Duras, on a Federation vessel. Kheylarr also was a Federation citizen and agent, making Duras' killing her a violation of treaty.

[leighrate]

Word was a loyal Federation Officer.
He wasn't just exercising The Right of Vengeance. By appearing in uniform but without his combadge he was also delivering a message from the Federation. One that was understood perfectly by The Klingon Empire.

[oddish]

- Janeway could not have been convicted of murder because there was no legal precedent for whether separating a fused being like Tuvix was murder or not.
- Armus's punishment was effectively eternal damnation, confinement to a self-created hell. You don't get worse than that.
- Worf acted completely within Klingon law and tradition.

[sinswhisper]

mortal Q: ugh ... what must i do to convince you people??
<deadpan> Worf: Die

[roguerifter]

Number 1 wasn't murder. Duras accepted Worf's challenge to a duel.

[Dondai-]

I know it'd ruin the whole "this is why 7 became vengeful" thing, and I know they don't tend to interfere but I'm really quite shocked that Q Jr would let Icheb get offed like that.

[leumasco]

How about when Captain Archer cloned trip to save, well, trip? he killed the clone...

[ginomo]

I’ll defend Worf to my last breath on the Duras “murder.”

[Soul-cry]

They missed a golden opportunity to not have a follow up episode with the equinox crew I wouldn't have minded an episode dealing with how they are adjusting to life on a new ship after what they've done and how the voyager crew adjusted to having them there.

[Hesitatedeye]

I still say Seven getting revenge for Icheb was the best of a bad situation. Do we really need to see what the hell Janeway would have done?

[joen]

You could make an eight hour video on Garak alone. The problem is not knowing which are a lie and which are true

[jamesfoster]

Ok Sean wearing Seven's silver suit was not something I knew I needed.

[romanmccoy]

Janeway didn't commit murder, that's technically triage. Medical providers, when faced with the decision of saving lives, can morally choose to allow a person to die they could have saved, if it means saving more people, or more people with a greater chance of survival..

[randomobserver]

Worf killing Duras was fully legal under Klingon law, which had jurisdiction as the venue was a Klingon vessel. Frankly, I'd question it being murder even under human law, for most cultures in most of history at least- two equal combatants, both facing one another, equivalently armed, intentionally fighting. I'm fine with it.

[rut]

The remaining crew of Equinox only "got away" with murder in the sense that their punishment defies normal conceptions of justice commensurate with murder. However, the traditions of naval law grant Captain Janeway generous leeway to determine guilt and innocence for crimes and award punishments as the senior available convening authority. Complete removal of rank is a hefty punishment for most military crimes, and while the crew of Voyager certainly made every effort to avoid death and to return to Earth, at the time there was no guarantee that the crew would ever return home, and service aboard Voyager was its own death sentence. Regardless, 3 capable Starfleet crew that do not present a clear and present danger to the crew of Voyager would be an absolute waste in the brig. They did not "get away" with murder, but they certainly got off light.

[alexhirsch]

You could have called this list: "10 characters from Star Trek who commit murder and get away with it from Deep Space Nine" and fit the spots comfortably.

Actually, let's:
-Garak obviously
-Sisko by association and also that time he poisoned a planet
-Jadzia Dax against the albino
-Kira against Cardassian civilians
-Odo letting innocent men go to their death rather than investigating further for the truth
-Worf again in DS9 specific episodes, including trying to kill his own brother
-Quark a few times over, but I'd say most importantly when he puts a group of arms dealers and their political opponents in a room together to kill each other and then just runs away
-Chief O'Brien talking about his war stories fighting against "the Cardies"
-Julian is a bit tricky, but he was willing to kill Sloan to get Odo's cure and forces Sloan into suicide, but that feels like a stretch
-Martok uhhhh do I even have to explain more Klingon lore obviously Martok
-Kai Winn getting her followers to plant a bomb in her first episode
-Dukat for obvious reasons but I'm choosing my favorite, which is when he tries to get his whole cult to willingly take cyanide while he takes a placebo. He tries to Jonestown them!
-Legate Damar that time he shoots his boss' daughter in the back because the plot told him to

[kenwynn]

Starfleet we're never going to pursue charges against any iteration of Janeway for the near destruction of the Borg collective, because they had already directly ordered Picard to do exactly that after he failed to do so when returning Hugh. Perhaps this even became a standard directive to all Captains

[Groundlord]

The thing is, Data *didn't* lie to Riker when he said "perhaps something occurred during transport." Something _did_ occur when Data was being beamed over.
Data just left out the fact that that "something" was him pulling the trigger.